All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.